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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tolkien see Pengolod as?
(a) A writer.
(b) An artist.
(c) A critic.
(d) A compiler.

2. Which bodies were more mortal, more terrestrial, and less like spirits?
(a) Elvish.
(b) Gnomish.
(c) Orcish.
(d) Human.

3. In Q, the Valar are explained in what tense?
(a) Future conditional.
(b) Past.
(c) Present.
(d) Future.

4. What did the Valar use to name and glorify things in the world?
(a) Speech.
(b) Soup.
(c) Art.
(d) Music.

5. Who asks forgiveness for desertion after Feanor's death?
(a) Maidros.
(b) Max.
(c) Maya.
(d) Margot.

6. What were the three groups of the Quendi called?
(a) Orc, Light, and Dark.
(b) Music, art, and writing.
(c) Lindar, the Noldor, and the Teleri.
(d) Fair, dark, and middle.

7. What were the Silmarils?
(a) Art supplies.
(b) Letters.
(c) Jewels.
(d) Books.

8. Whose death is based mostly on the Lay of Leithian, Canoto XII?
(a) Marcus.
(b) Sauron.
(c) Tolkien.
(d) Fingolin.

9. What two towns were built before the Dwarves came forth?
(a) Dwarf land and Elf land.
(b) Elf land and Gondor.
(c) Turgon and Morgoth.
(d) Nargothrond and Gondolin.

10. After what event did the first Annals begin?
(a) The conflict over the Moon.
(b) The birth of a star.
(c) The first uprising of the Sun.
(d) The death of the Moon.

11. What did Morgoth release during the second age?
(a) Bugs.
(b) Priests.
(c) Fireflies.
(d) Dragons.

12. Where did the Noldorian Elves roam for the first fifty years of the Sun?
(a) Lost Road.
(b) Streetside.
(c) Beleriand.
(d) Valinor.

13. Who fled from the land of the Valar with the Silmarils?
(a) Quenta.
(b) Tolkien.
(c) Morgoth.
(d) Christopher.

14. What did Tolkien write about when the QS came back from the publishers in 1937?
(a) The Orcs.
(b) The Hobbits.
(c) The Dwarves.
(d) The Gnomes.

15. What were the Elves called that were led by Orome?
(a) Light.
(b) Orcs.
(c) Dark.
(d) Quendi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of trees that came after Laurelin and Silpion had different names in Q than QS?

2. Which creatures did Morgoth send into Beleriand?

3. What battle is described better in the QS?

4. What does Q not contain a reference to that QS does?

5. What were the Ainur?

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